UK EDUCATION Impington Village College
Education reform in
Freed from the shackles of coalition, the UK’s Conservative government has, during the last year, accelerated its plans for education reform in England. Rebecca Marriage offers an overview of recent changes to education in England’s state schools, to help families on the move to understand their options.
J
ust before June’s Brexit bombshell nudged all other events off the news agenda, government plans for
education reform were dominating the headlines. And with Theresa May’s first domestic speech as Prime Minister, in which she announced that she planned to lift the ban on the expansion of new grammar schools, it seems that education is firmly back on the policy agenda for Brexit Britain. The government’s central aim in
its programme of education reform is to drive up standards in England’s
England
schools to match those of schools in other high-performing countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) international education league tables.
Academy schools At the heart of the changes is the government’s desire to allow schools to become independent of local authorities, giving headteachers and senior leadership teams the freedom to undertake day-to- day management, funded directly by the Department for Education.
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